Now that leaves are falling around here, we are in serious planning mode for our Thanksgiving feast. You may be surprised to find that many of the staple dishes on your table were once patent-protected inventions. Don’t believe that you can patent food? Check these out:
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A Patent in Sheep’s Clothing?
It looks like Dolly, the cloned sheep, is not patentable subject matter. In a recent case called In re Roslin Institute (Edinburg), the Federal Circuit found that Dolly was too similar to the donor sheep and was essentially a copy of a naturally occurring organism, making her patent ineligible. The Roslin Institute, which would own […]